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• AMD Radeon HD 6800 series is the new midrange graphics champ

  By Jason Cross | 04 November, 2010 11:31

  With the release of the Radeon HD 6850 and Radeon HD 6870 graphics cards, AMD delivers fantastic value for the average PC gamer.

• Analysis: Intel, AMD end a bitter business and technical battle

  By Patrick Thibodeau | 13 November, 2009 07:56

  The settlement reached today by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) and Intel may not simply resolve some of the business issues the two companies have had; it might even encourage them to cooperate on some shared technical issues, say analysts. In fact, Intel's $1.25 billion payment to AMD may, in the end, turn out to be only a small part of what the accord delivers.

• AMD talks Bulldozer, Hemlock and Fusion

  By James Niccolai | 12 November, 2009 10:06

  If chip makers competed on the basis of code names rather than products then Advanced Micro Devices might have beaten Intel a long time ago.

• AMD, Intel budget chipsets go head to head

  By Frank J. Ohlhorst | 17 September, 2009 08:54

  For years, Intel and AMD have been battling for predominance in the processor/chipset market. AMD's latest plan seems to be to push back on economic grounds -- to offer high-value budget chipsets targeted at the soon-to-be-released Windows 7 systems, and high-performance chipsets that are slightly slower, but much cheaper, than equivalent Intel products. And Intel is firing back.

• Laptop battery life benchmarks are out of juice

  By Eric Lai | 23 July, 2009 20:10

  In an industry that gets off on throwing obscure benchmarks at buyers, laptop battery life is one of the easiest to understand.

• Ghosts of Cyrix, PowerPC, Transmeta haunt x86-bound Nvidia

  By Eric Lai | 12 March, 2009 09:08

  Experts have one question about Nvidia's public admission last week that it may offer its own PC processor: What took you so long?

• Intel, AMD multicore chip sales may be slowed by software

  By Sharon Gaudin | 25 September, 2008 09:15

  Trying to boost the IT capabilities at his digital forensics company, Brian Dykstra invested in a quad-core processor-based server. After all, he figured, more cores means a more powerful machine that can do far more work than single-core systems.